"Save what's life? I just pulled you away, lest you get in the way of the little master and everyone, but I didn't think about what I was going to do with you! The tall man in his fifties put down the patriarch's wife of Xujia Village heavily, glared at her warningly, and then walked forward without looking back.

The wife of the patriarch of Xujia Village is at a loss, and it is not good to say anything more.

Under the persuasion of the people of Xujia Village who chased her, she followed the team in frustration, not daring to approach Xiao Qiongzhi again.

Soon, as Xiao Qiongzhi expected, not long after entering the mountains of Xujia Village, there was a trace of Poria cocos.

It's a pity that it's just a large plant, and the number is too small to have a shocking effect.

Xiao Qiongzhi hesitated for a moment before pointing to it and telling everyone: "This is Poria cocos, its roots are like potatoes and sweet potatoes, and it can be used as miscellaneous grains. ”

"Yes, little master!" The 180 people who came together immediately replied in unison.

It's just that their next actions surprised Xiao Qiongzhi.

They didn't look for sharp wood chips, stones and other tools that could assist in digging the soil, but first tore off a lot of thatch and small shrubs from the ground, and then directly dug down one by one with their hands.

This made Xiao Qiongzhi very worried that their hands would hurt.

After all, it has been a sunny day lately, and despite the sunshine here, the soil is still relatively dry, and from time to time, there will be large and small sharp rocks in the soil, and if you are not careful, you will be worn out of the skin or punctured with bloody holes.

She asked Zheng Bang to take her to a pine tree not far from Poria and sit down, and condescendingly reminded everyone: "There is great strength in numbers, don't worry, protect your hands, dig lightly, and carefully see if there are any stones inside." ”

"It's okay, little master, we're all right." A sixty-year-old man who was digging in the soil immediately looked up and replied.

The movement of his hands did not stop, and he continued to dig the earth.

As for the others, not to mention, they didn't bother to answer at all and kept digging in the dirt.

Even women like the wife of the patriarch of Xujia Village are without exception.

This also shows how much they fear the days of starvation and how much they crave food.

I hope that there will be more mountain chestnuts, Poria cocos and Huai Mountain in the mountains that belong to them, so that they can live no longer hungry in this winter, Xiao Qiongzhi thought silently.

Half an hour later, everyone dug up all the roots of this Poria cocos, even the one as small as the thickness of a little finger.

Probably everyone's luck, judging from the width and height of the Poria cocos accumulation and the size of most of the blocks, it is estimated that there are at least three or four hundred catties.

This is a huge gain for them.

Each of them smiled and whispered to each other with great interest, looking forward to how wonderful it would be if they could find many of them.

Some of these women even thought that they could take dozens of catties of Poria as a dowry gift for their sons or grandsons, and go to Fangjia Village and Zhangjia Village next door to propose marriage or something.

It is estimated that Fangjia Village and Zhangjia Village should be the same as Wangjia Village, Xujia Village, and Liujia Village, and all the villagers are basically living a life of hunger.

Xiao Qiongzhi also helped the people of Wangjia Village, Xujia Village, and Liujia Village anyway, and decided to do good things to the end.

She looked at everyone and reminded loudly, "Everyone, be quiet, I have something to say." ”

"Yes! Little master. Everyone was immediately silenced.

But he is also obedient.

Xiao Qiongzhi was very satisfied, and said loudly to them: "I heard the old people say that the blessings of everyone's parents and their own life depend on the good deeds of their ancestors in their previous lives and the good deeds of their parents and themselves in this life, so that they can always have it. ”

"You see, this Poria cocos, just one plant, can dig out so much, how many people's stomachs can be filled?"

"If you can dig up enough Poria cocos in the future, and you don't have to go hungry, wouldn't it be pitiful for those people in other villages who were starving like you, but they still have to starve?"

"Think about it again, if they knew that you had food in your hands and didn't have to go hungry, would they come to rob you like you came to rob our Zhoujia Village today?"

"Little master, I understand what you mean, do you want us to divide some of them to the people in the next village if we can dig up a lot of Poria cocos, and help them so that they don't have to go hungry anymore, don't you?" At this time, a villager thought that he understood the meaning of Xiao Qiongzhi's words, and asked in a loud voice with some pride.

Xiao Qiongzhi shook his head slightly: "No, I mean, instead of waiting for people from other villages, because they can't stand the hunger and have no choice but to come and grab our food, it is better for us to take the initiative to tell them how to recognize Poria cocos and yam eggs." ”

"Then they will go to their mountains, dig them up, fill their stomachs, and they will not bother to rob us again."

In the crowd, the lady of the patriarch of Xujia Village, who had become relatively low-key because she had been taught a lesson just now, immediately widened her eyes and said loudly: "Little master, you only see this Poria cocos, you can dig out so much, you can't guarantee that we can find a lot of such Poria cocos, and dig out so many, right?" ”

"If we don't tell people in other villages about Poria cocos and yam eggs, then if we don't have enough Poria cocos and yam eggs to eat, we can quietly go to other villages to dig and pick some more."

"Help people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, in my opinion, you still have to wait for the people in our three villages to have winter food, and then tell the people in other villages about Poria cocos and yam eggs, it's better."

Oh, this face is comparable to dogs and stones.

Xiao Qiongzhi was almost laughed at by her.

She said in a heavy tone: "Madame Patriarch, each of us does not necessarily have to have the responsibility to let the world live a good life together, at least, as human beings, we should not try to rely on harming the fundamental interests of others to fulfill our own selfishness, otherwise, how different is it from animals?" ”

"In addition, I'm just a little girl, my ability is limited, I just need to save the emergency, no matter how poor I am, but I don't have the ambition of helping people to the end and sending the Buddha to the west."

Of course, if the other party values love and righteousness, and is willing to help more people who also need help, so that they can feel the warmth of this world, and continue to pass on their love endlessly. That's another story. ”

Speaking of this, she looked at everyone present: "I have decided that until the people in the other surrounding villages can eat the poria and yam eggs in their mountains, I will not tell any one of you in the three villages about the identification of the third kind of grain and the method of making it into food!" Next, what to do, let's figure it out for ourselves. ”